Analysis Topic: Election Oracle
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Labour Leadership Election Cliffhanger Results Shocker, Ed Miliband Wins on the Fourth Round! / ElectionOracle / UK Politics
By: Nadeem_Walayat
David Miliband the favourite and leading candidate for the whole of the Labour leadership election campaign saw his victory go up in smoke as the big unions (Unite and GMB) piled in with David's left leaning brother Ed, after the union voters had been bolstered and pumped via anti-cuts propaganda earlier in the month at the TUC congress.
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Labour Leadership Battle Between the Miliband's, David Miliband New Labour Leader (Probably) / ElectionOracle / UK Politics
By: Nadeem_Walayat
David Miliband is expected to be elected as the new Labour Party leader today with the results to be announced shortly after 4.30pm at Labours Party Conference in Manchester. The leadership race began some three months ago with David Miliband as the clear favourite but increasingly his younger brother Ed has been able to chip away at David's lead bit by bit as the Labour party members have always been left of New Labour which therefore naturally favours Ed Miliband over David Miliband, whereas the parliamentary party favours David Miliband as a more experienced and effective parliamentary leader to put up against the twin headed coalition government of David Cameron and Nick Clegg.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Voters for Tea Party Candidates, Prepare to be Betrayed / ElectionOracle / US Congressional Elections
By: LewRockwell
It's another revolutionary season in American politics, with voters preparing to do everything they can within the structure of the law to throw out the bad guys and the bad system they represent. The focus is on this amorphous thing called the Tea Party, which embodies a huge range of political impulses from libertarian to authoritarian, united under the common belief that everything is going wrong in Washington, with a common goal of upending the status quo.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
U.S. Midterm Elections and Obama's Foreign Policy Choices / ElectionOracle / US Congressional Elections
By: STRATFOR
We are now nine weeks away from the midterm elections in the United States. Much can happen in nine weeks, but if the current polls are to be believed, U.S. President Barack Obama is about to suffer a substantial political reversal. While we normally do not concern ourselves with domestic political affairs in the United States, when the only global power is undergoing substantial political uncertainty, that inevitably affects its behavior and therefore the dynamics of the international system. Thus, we have to address it, at least from the standpoint of U.S. foreign policy. While these things may not matter much in the long run, they certainly are significant in the short run. Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, September 02, 2010
Barack Obama's Oval Office Lovefest / ElectionOracle / US Congressional Elections
By: Mike_Whitney
Barack Obama kicked off campaign season in grand style last night with a celebratory "The Iraq War is Over" speech from the Oval Office. Obama--who was framed by flags and photos of cheery family members--looked as wooden and as uncomfortable as anytime since he has taken office.
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Thursday, August 26, 2010
Corporate Funding of the Upcoming US Mid-Term Congressional Elections / ElectionOracle / US Congressional Elections
By: Global_Research
Kevin Zeese writes: Voter Beware Concentrated Corporate Power is Creating Deceptive Elections
The Republican Party is Being Replaced with Secret Donors and Unlimited Donations as Concentrated Corporate Interests Spend Hundreds of Millions in the Mid-Term Elections
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Sunday, August 01, 2010
Battle Over Expiring Bush Tax Cuts Likely to Shape Fall Elections / ElectionOracle / US Politics
By: Money_Morning
Don Miller writes:
A colossal battle is shaping up in Congress over what to do about the Bush-era tax cuts that are set to expire at the end of this year. It's an issue that entails sufficient economic and political consequences that could shape the fall elections and fiscal policy for years to come.
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Reasons Why Labour Lost the Election and the Leadership Candidates / ElectionOracle / UK Politics
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The General Election dust has now settled for better or worse in a ConDem government for at least the next 2 years. The Labour party elite are now engaged in two tasks, first to elect a new leader and secondly to dissect why Labour lost the general election. This article lists the 5 reasons that are the most probable as to why Labour lost and may help in determining which of the 6 candidates announced so far would be best for Labour and Britain.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
How the British Election Could Supercharge the UK Economy / ElectionOracle / UK General Election
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes: In the depths of the Depression-ridden 1930s, two years after a British General Election that yielded a "hung parliament" - came the formation of a coalition government that resulted in one of the strongest decades the British economy has ever enjoyed.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Gordon Brown Mission Accomplished, Labour General Election Plan a Magnificent Success / ElectionOracle / UK General Election
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Gordon Brown Mission Accomplished as he leaves office by delivering a bankrupt scorched earth UK economy to a weak Conservative / Liberal Democrat coalition government that will sooner or later rip itself apart in the face of deep rooted ideological differences between the two which sows the seeds for a series of landslide Labour election victories possibly as soon as 2012 despite talk of an agreed fixed 5 year term.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Alistair Campbell Row with Adam Boulton Sky News Murdoch Tory Press Propagandist / ElectionOracle / Mainstream Media
By: Submissions
Boulton and Campbell have a row live on Sky News, following Gordon Browns possible offer for a deal between the Lib Dems and Labour on 10th May 2010.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Prime Minister Gordon Brown Stepping Down; What's it Mean to the British Pound? / ElectionOracle / UK General Election
By: Mike_Shedlock
It seems like ages ago yet it was only yesterday when I said Good Riddance to "Clown" Brown
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Hung Parliament Disaster for Britain, Liberal Democrats Holding Country to Ransom / ElectionOracle / UK General Election
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Brit's are starting to wake up to the reality of what hung parliaments mean which is that voters see what they voted for on the basis of party manifestos at the General Election being stripped out of parties programme's for government to result in a mish mash of weak sludge as coalition governments slowly take form in secret smoke filled rooms.
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Monday, May 10, 2010
Political Impasse in Britain in the Wake of the General Election / ElectionOracle / UK General Election
By: William_Bowles
“The public and markets want…to see a “government in place”” — Alistair Darling
You didn't need a visit to the Delphic Oracle in order to figure out what would happen, in any case I doubt that many want to visit Greece these days. So, on 8 May the carve-up began with Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats meeting a team of Tory advisors in order to strike a deal to try and form a ‘coalition’ government. So much for ‘first past the post’ electoral system, designed in pre-historic times to maintain the hegemony of the ruling class. And if a deal can’t be struck with the Tories the next stop will be the Labour Party, though a deal with Labour is unlikely as it would require every party, aside from the Tories that is, to vote with the Lib-Dem/Labour coalition on the substantive policy issues.
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Sunday, May 09, 2010
UK Taxpayers Ramrodded Into E.U. Bailout; Good Riddance to "Clown" Brown / ElectionOracle / UK Politics
By: Mike_Shedlock
Smack in the midst of an election that will likely cost Prime Minister Gordan Brown his job, British taxpayers ordered to bail out euro.
Saturday, May 08, 2010
UK General Election Result, Opinion Polls Forecasts Analysis, What's Next? / ElectionOracle / UK General Election
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The election is over but Britain still waits to find out who will form the next government. The outcome has resulted in a just about as hung a parliament as one could have expected. As things stand clearly the two parties that are most likely to form a coalition government are the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats with a combined total of 364 (307+57), well above the 326 seats necessary for an overall majority.
Friday, May 07, 2010
Sheffield General Election and Local City Council Results 2010, Labour Repels Liberal Democrats / ElectionOracle / UK General Election
By: N_Walayat
Going into the General and Local Elections, the battle for Sheffield's council seats and Central Constituency was expected to be extremely tight between Labour and the Liberal Democrats as a consequence of the Lib-Dems national 10% surge in the polls from 20% to 30%, putting Labour into third place in many opinion polls which risked Labour losing as many as a 1/3rd of it's city councilors and the Central Parliamentary Constituency.
Friday, May 07, 2010
Sheffield Darnall Local Election 2010 Result, Labour Tribe Turns Out to Crush Liberal Democrat Hopes / ElectionOracle / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
Going into the Sheffield City local election, the battle for Darnall and other Sheffield wards was expected to be extremely tight between Labour and the Liberal Democrats as a consequence of the Lib-Dems national 10% surge in the polls from 20% to 30% putting Labour into third place in many opinion polls which risked as many as a 1/3rd of Labour council seats being lost.
Thursday, May 06, 2010
U.K. General Election Exit Poll Result Does Not Make Any Sense / ElectionOracle / UK General Election
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The BBC / SKY / ITV election exit poll released as the polls closed at 10pm, projects for a hung parliament with the Conservatives in front on 307 seats, Labour second on 255 seats and Liberal Democrats third on 59 seats.
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
U.K. General Election Forecast 2010, Hung Parliament or Conservative Win ? / ElectionOracle / UK General Election
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The mainstream press obsesses over national opinion polls that are clearly suggestive of hung parliament that typically places Conservatives on 35%, and both Labour and the Liberal Democrats on 28% which translates into a decidedly hung parliament. The Conservatives to win outright typically need a swing from Labour to Conservatives of at least 7% to reach 39/40%, instead they are only achieving a 5% swing nationally.